Broadway Grosses: Week Ending 10/30/22

Also, you will find information on each show's historical grosses, cumulative grosses and other statistics on how each show stacked up this week and in the past.

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Up for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: THE KITE RUNNER (8.5%), COST OF LIVING (6.8%), THE PIANO LESSON (2.2%),

Down for the week by attendance (% of capacity) was: ALMOST FAMOUS (-13.3%), INTO THE WOODS (-12.4%), CHICAGO (-11.9%), BEETLEJUICE (-10.1%), WICKED (-9.5%), SIX (-9%), KIMBERLY AKIMBO (-8.7%), KPOP (-8.4%), THE BOOK OF MORMON (-6.7%), HAMILTON (-6.4%), DEATH OF A SALESMAN (-6.4%), A STRANGE LOOP (-6.1%), HADESTOWN (-5.5%), 1776 (-5.2%), LEOPOLDSTADT (-5%), ALADDIN (-4.7%), MOULIN ROUGE! THE MUSICAL (-3.7%), TOPDOG / UNDERDOG (-3.4%), THE MUSIC MAN (-3.2%), THE LION KING (-3.1%), HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (-2.1%), FUNNY GIRL (-1.8%), WALKING WITH GHOSTS (-1.4%), MJ THE MUSICAL (-0.8%), THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (-0.8%),

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MJ continues to astound!

Definitely something spooky afoot with these horrifyingly low grosses

KPOP’s number isn’t a typo, is it? Because that’s a bad, bad start (in a week full of bad numbers).

1. Ecstatic about Leopoldstadt!!

2. Would Chicago close because that number....YIKES

EDSOSLO858 said: "It hurts my heart to see these kinds of numbers pretty much on a weekly basis.Are we sure these consistent bad weeks are mostly due to rising inflation and the pandemic’s impact on tourists?

If it happens to a small handful of shows for some time, okay, it happens. But if it happens to almost everyone nearly every week, that’s a disturbing trend.
Has theatergoing really become a dying activity?

I think tickets have just become too expensive, therefore, people take less risk and only pay top dollar for an "event". That being said, &Juliet with a very impressive start, albeit only 2 performances.

Crazy when you realize that people aren’t buying tickets in advance but will rather take the risk and buy closer to day-of. There isn’t one show currently that is the “hot ticket” or “must-see” show. The numbers for all the new shows are so lousy. KA, AF, and K-Pop look to be in serious trouble unless they get raves across the boards.

Attendance is going to continue to be abysmal until:

1. People stop saying "I'll just see the proshot. They're making a proshot, right?"

2. Banning phones in theaters and accepting that we can't just say phones - marketing because if that were true, 1776 would be selling out at premium prices because that thing is all over Tiktok.

3. Nonstop crime headlines about New York.

4. Few people want to deal with bad audience behavior--similar to the problem with movie attendance.

5. While it's true that nobody cares about the pandemic anymore, Broadway's bread and butter is the 60+ crowd, and when you combine the now-small threat of covid with bad audiences, high crime (or even the perception of high crime) and then inflation on top of all that, it's clear that Broadway will continue to struggle.

STILL DOESN'T MEAN PHANTOM SHOULD CLOSE THOUGH, CAMERON!

I've been saying all this for a few months now and every time I do, this board jumps down my throat but these are the reasons Broadway isn't back and why nobody cares about these new shows.

Maybe there’s just too many choices right now on Broadway?
There are 12 out of 31 Broadway shows that grossed over $1 million so I think people are still paying full price tix but are more selective about it.

I consume a massive amount of daily national print media (NYT, WSJ, Washington Post, Financial Times, et al) and I certainly don't see daily headlines about crime in NYC.

Too many around here read the NY Post like it's their bible and believe allll the crap. Sad.

Crime is up everywhere. Blue states. Red cities. Red states. Blue cities.

I hope Ive cleared that up for everyone. Also, the tourists are well covered. Times Square is covered with cops as are the white neighborhoods. The cops are protecting people who "matter" to this City I guess.

Nebraska and Indiana come on down! You are safe!

people have been saying "live theatre is dying!" for years and years and years now and it never has and honestly I don't think it ever will. rough patches will happen but I do not think we need to be concerned about the medium as a whole